Why Football Is Important To Me

Growing up, there was a high variety of sports and activities that I was involved in, but football was by far the best one for me. I know that the sport isn’t something that is appealing to everyone, but it is something that interests me and makes up a community that I identify with. Football is a sport I wanted to play because it involved being a part of something bigger than myself and do something at a competitive level, and I think a lot of the people that play have that same mentality. With that, I have gained knowledge from football that I can use in other aspects and situations in life beyond the sport. Playing football defiantly required me to be in shape. Over the years, I spent a lot of time in the weight room or on the field trying to increase things like strength, stamina, and agility. During this time, I gained knowledge on different types of workouts, what muscle groups they focused on, and how my body benefitted from them. Because of this, I am able to use what I learned in football to help myself understand the body in a way that helps me. From this basis of knowledge, my interest in the human body has grown, and I find anatomy and physiology more interesting than other science subjects.
Football gave me a different perspective on the body and how it works, and more
I feel like my age group played through some of the main transitions that made the game safer and put more attention on the safety of the players. One of the best examples I can think of was a drill that was banned in middle school, called the “Oklahoma drill”. Basically, in the drill, two players lay on the ground, helmets touching top to top, then get up on the whistle and tackle each other. From what I remember in the 7th grade, this drill had a lot of head to head contact, so I can see why it was banned the year